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Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed, Washington DC, 1: Measures of Central Tendency part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students examine the histogram of a positively skewed data set and calculate its mean, median and mode.

Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water cycle/groundwater-surface water interface, Water supply/water resource evaluation, Water quality/chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Hydrology, Geoscience

A Percentage Stroll through Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate percentages and percent differences to compare various measures of fumaroles, mud pots, hot springs and geysers in this introduction to hydrothermal features at Yellowstone NP.

Subject: Geoscience

Mined-Over Matter: Remembering Copper Mining at Keweenaw National Historic Park, Upper Peninsula Michigan part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students calculate the amount of rock removed and the value of copper produced at the great Keweenaw District up to 1925.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Economic Geology

What is the Discharge of the Congaree River at Congaree National Park? part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students use a rating curve to determine discharge at various stage heights.

Subject: Geoscience

Something is Askew at Mammoth Cave National Park part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students use the geometric mean and multiplicative standard deviation to examine the right-skewed distribution of nutrient concentrations in water-quality data at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Geology, Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Hydrology, Biogeosciences , Geoscience, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Point Source Pollution, Non-Point Source Pollution, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Sustainability, Ecosystems:Restoration/Reclamation, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Environmental Science, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Data Management and Organization:Outliers, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Data Management and Organization, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:One Categorical Variable:Graphical Displays, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:One Categorical Variable, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation, Statistical Inference and Techniques, Mathematics:Statistics, Mathematics

Lithospheric Density part of Examples
Students learn about the weighted mean by building spreadsheets that apply this concept to the average density of the oceanic lithosphere.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Tectonophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Tectonics, Geoscience:Geology, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Physics:Classical Mechanics:Gravity, Physics:Classical Mechanics, Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Geoscience

Tale of Two Cities (and two hurricanes): New Orleans part of Environmental Geology:Activities
This is an activity that uses the spreadsheet program Excel to explore the origins of subsidence in New Orleans. There are two versions. The first is a traditional Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum (SSAC) module ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Subsidence, Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Environmental Science

Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed, Washington DC, 2: Variability part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate standard deviation and z-values to examine a possible outlier in a positively skewed data set.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Water quality/chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience

Just How Faithful is Old Faithful? Finding Order in Random Behavior part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks Collection. Students create a histogram to examine the time between geyser eruptions of Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park.

Subject: Geoscience

What Does the Mean Mean? Describing Eruptions at Riverside Geyser, Yellowstone National Park part of Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students study measures of central tendency in a bimodal dataset of eruption intervals.

Subject: Geoscience